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China: Further information: Ai Weiwei and his colleagues released
26 July 2011

Ai Weiwei, an internationally well-known Chinese artist; Wen Tao, his friend and assistant; Zhang Jingsong, his cousin and driver; Hu Mingfen, his accountant, have ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/037/2011

China: Further information: Family of human rights defender ...
20 July 2011

Xinna and Uiles, the wife and son of ethnic Mongolian human rights activist Hada, have been formally arrested. Hada is currently in a secret prison and has been ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/036/2011

China: Further information: Chinese activist at risk of torture
14 July 2011

Mao Hengfeng, a Chinese human rights defender, is being held incommunicado at Shanghai City Prison Hospital. She is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/034/2011

China: Further information: Detained Chinese activists denied ...
7 July 2011

Ni Yulan, housing rights activist and former lawyer, and her husband Dong Jiqin have been formally arrested on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/035/2011

China: Against the law: Crackdown on China's human rights lawyers ...
30 June 2011

Human rights lawyers in China are under siege from a state bent on imposing absolute control on them. These lawyers are threatened with suspension of their licences ...

Report       ASA 17/018/2011

China: Dark times for lawyers as repression intensifies | Amnesty ...
30 June 2011

China's efforts to control and suppress human rights lawyers have intensified recently, according to a new Amnesty International report.

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Against the law: Crackdown on China's human rights lawyers deepens ...
30 June 2011

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. UPDATE. Index: ASA 17/031/2011. 30 June 2011. Against the law: Crackdown on China's human rights lawyers deepens: Update on Background. ...

PressItem       ASA 17/031/2011

China releases Ai Weiwei associates from detention | Amnesty ...
25 June 2011

Trio who had been subjected to enforced disappearance along with the Chinese artist released, but other dissidents remain in detention.

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China must reveal the whereabouts of Ai Weiwei's associates ...
23 June 2011

Three of artist Ai Weiwei's associates are still missing, presumed in secret detention, despite the conditional release of Ai and his cousin.

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Stop two executions in China
23 June 2011

A Hong Kong man, Robert Shan Shiao-may, and Lien Sung-ching, of Taiwan, are facing execution in mainland China. The Supreme People's Court (SPC) in Beijing is now ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/028/2011